Mysteries
epub |eng | | Author:Louise Bagshawe

Chapter 31 She woke at dawn; it was not quite six. Sophie lay against her soft, down-feather pillows and watched the dawn through her lead-paned windows; pale peach light streaking ...
( Category: Literary Fiction May 3,2021 )
epub | | 1983-04-15 | Author:Robert B. Parker [Robert B Parker]

CHAPTER TWELVE IT WAS ABOUT ONE THIRTY when I got back to my apartment. I stripped off my clothes and took a long shower, slowly easing the water temperature down ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths May 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Parker, Robert B - Appaloosa 01 [01, Parker, Robert B - Appaloosa]

Chapter 31. It took the train more than a half hour to get around the far bend and stop and back up. Cole stood on the back platform of it ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled Mystery May 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Kristi [Kristi]

The main room is about eighty feet long by sixty feet wide and vaults five stories to a muraled ceiling. On the second, third, fourth, and fifth floors, bookcases line ...
mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Robert B - Appaloosa 03 Parker [Parker, Robert B - Appaloosa 03]

Chapter 37 I WAS UPSTAIRS IN PIKE'S PALACE, lying on a bed with a whore named Frisco. I never knew the rest of her name. But she was a nice ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled Mystery May 2,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Robert B - Sunny Randall 03 Parker [Parker, Robert B - Sunny Randall 03]

He couldn't be in any kind, unless some patient is lying about him. What kind of lies might they tell? I said. I don't know. There isn't anything. I mean ...
( Category: Mysteries May 2,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Robert B - Appaloosa 01 Parker [Parker, Robert B - Appaloosa 01]

Chapter 31. It took the train more than a half hour to get around the far bend and stop and back up. Cole stood on the back platform of it ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled Mystery May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Parker, Robert B - Appaloosa 03 [03, Parker, Robert B - Appaloosa]

I WAS UPSTAIRS IN PIKE'S PALACE, lying on a bed with a whore named Frisco. I never knew the rest of her name. But she was a nice girl, except ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled Mystery May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Web Site Story [Ver. 3.0] [Story, Web Site]

It was Wednesday evening now. The fifth day of Rune in the year 2022. The evening smelled of lilies and of antique roses too and Big Bob marched across the ...
( Category: Mysteries May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller [Pronzini, Bill & Muller, Marcia]

Jan They were just starting to make love when the telephone rang downstairs. “Oh, damn,” Alix said. “Isn’t that always the way?” He said, “I’ll get it.” “Let it ring. ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Bill Pronzini [Pronzini, Bill]

THE TERRARIUM PRINCIPLE Andrea Parker was on the back porch, working on her latest project—the planting of seeds in a bottle terrarium—when she heard Jerry's car in the driveway. She ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths May 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Bill Pronzini [Pronzini, Bill]

IV. The minute hand dragged itself around the clock on the office wall. In the pulp—the December 1936 issue of Detective Tales—I read "Satan Covers the Waterfront" by Tom Roan ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled Mystery April 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-25 | Author:Kate Young [Young, Kate]

CHAPTER 18 A fter we ordered dinner, we stood in my office, where I had a huge whiteboard hung above the whitewashed desk. I tossed the teal throw pillow that ...
( Category: Mysteries April 30,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dixie Lyle [Lyle, Dixie]

* * * By the time lunch ended, Oscar had persuaded at least one guest—Hironobu Masuda—to look at his proposal, though nobody had pledged any funds. Considering that this was ...
( Category: Cozy Mysteries April 30,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-15 | Author:Lynn Cahoon [Cahoon, Lynn]

Chapter 6 Baldwin kept everyone at the party past three. Mia had shut down the bar at two, hoping the crowd wouldn’t revolt, but she didn’t think drunk witnesses were ...
( Category: Women Sleuths April 30,2021 )